I love transporters when they can be used to display the models they carried, so accordingly have been a bit disappointed so many of the recent transporters from Spark have been 'sealed' models. I therefore prefer 'open' transporters which can be displayed with the appropriate cars.

I love transporters when they can be used to display the models they carried, so accordingly have been a bit disappointed so many of the recent transporters from Spark have been 'sealed' models. I therefore prefer 'open' transporters which can be displayed with the appropriate cars.

As I said above, I prefer models of transporters when they can be used to display the models they carried.

Here's another one I'd like, which I found on a French Forum (with credit to Claude 908). The model of the Joest team bus would be a great way to display a New Man Porsche 956 - which has been modelled by Minichamps, Spark and HPI.

Since Minichamps is starting to produce a number of 1:43 buses, perhaps they could do the race transporter and also use the same casting for some standard bus models as well.

Interesting and imaginative, to use a bus as a transporter.About transporters I have a couple of them, see pictures at this "Windows Live" locationhttp://cid-0b28de878....co...s ^0 VansIf you to see more go to "Forums > The Nostalgia Forum > Racing Collectables > 1/43 All about model collecting" my personal topicRegards

SPTC have just released their latest transporter available to order as Kit or built. I have some on order now for early delivery .

SPTC:-In 1957 Vanwall team received a special transporter based on a Leyland Worldmaster chassis. In the same year Vanwall became the first British manufacturer ever to win the British Grand Prix, at Aintree in 1957 with drivers Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks. They followed up with victories in the Pescara and Italian Grands Prix. In 1958 Vanwall team won Dutch Gran Prix, German Gran Prix, Portuguese Gran Prix, Italian Gran Prix, Moroccan Gran Prix and Vanwall won the first-ever FIA Formula 1 Constructors’ World Championship. This beautiful transporter survived until our days.Scale: 1:43

I love transporters when they can be used to display the models they carried, so accordingly have been a bit disappointed so many of the recent transporters from Spark have been 'sealed' models. I therefore prefer 'open' transporters which can be displayed with the appropriate cars.

Spark have just released the 1965 Austin Healey Sprites :

So, I'd like to have the BMC transporter to match :

Is there a colour problem here?

I would expect the transporter to be Cooper dark green, or possibly dark blue, or black in which case the Sprites should be a similar shade of grey in the B&W photo. Unless the transporter was red and the sensitivity of the B&W film or the choice of filters was one that shows red as dark and green as light.

I would expect the transporter to be Cooper dark green, or possibly dark blue, or black in which case the Sprites should be a similar shade of grey in the B&W photo. Unless the transporter was red and the sensitivity of the B&W film or the choice of filters was one that shows red as dark and green as light.

The Sprites left Warwick painted flourescent green, hence them looking very pale on the truck. The ACO rejected them at scrutineering because they considered the bright paint to be a danger to other competitors (this of course had nothing to do with them being fast, small capacity prototypes which might threaten the home grown machinery for class and Index honours) and so Healey had to have them repainted overnight. Most local garages, having heard that the paint was 'dangerous' refused to allow them on the premises and eventually they found someone who would repaint them, at a price, using some US military surplus dark green he had lying around. Had the Healey model been photographed from the other side the original lighter colour is visible around the fuel filler and there are race photos of the cars showing some of the original paint through the new darker colour where they have been subject to insect and gravel rash on the nose.

There hasn't been a post in this thread for a year, but I came across this picture over the festive season of the 1966 Daytona winning GT40's and thought it would be a great subject for Exoto to produce using their C-Type Transporter casting. IXO have already produced the #97 and #98 GT40's, so having the transporter to match would make a sensational set :

Here's another subject for Exoto and their C-Type transporter casting. Spark have just released the 1970 Parnelli Jones Trans Am Mustang, so having the transporter to match would make a nice set. It should be a relatively easy subject for Exoto :

Yes, its a pity Exoto chose to use some artistic licence with their C-Type casting to produce a range of ficticious transporters.

I think I've found the source of Exoto's inspiration, which I posted recently on the Scale 1:43 Forum. Back in the 1980's, there was a California based toy company that imported plastic kits from a variety of Japanese manufacturers under the brand name "Entex". One of the lines Entex sold was a series of 1:32 racing transporters that were all based (ficticiously) around a common Ford C-Type cab. Notice anything familiar about the liveries of these - all are variations of Exoto's liveries ?

Note how the Entex Tyrell transporter even has the same open roof as the Exoto version :

It would seem to me that Exoto have taken one of these Entex kits of the Tyrell transporter and simply reverse engineered it to scale it down from 1:32 to 1:43 to form the basis oftheir model. If you weren't worried about accuracy, it then would have been logical to simply modify the liveries that featured on the other Entex transporters as a starting point, then copy a few other period liveries for good measure.

Oh yes , I remember them , but never bothered to try find them again after I for real ventured into this area of motorsport. And I think you are right too , quite clearly , though very interesting to look at , it is not my cup of tea with fantasy models. But still some US teams did use outfits looking like this , and a few different ones....................thanks.